Big Sale

October 15, 1986

MONTREAL — Imasco Ltd., a Montreal-based tobacco and retailing company, will sell its Genstar Gypsum Products Co. division for $337 million cash Canadian to Domtar Inc., a diversified company also based in Montreal. Genstar Gypsum, based in Irving, Texas, is a subsidiary of Genstar Corp., bought by Imasco earlier this year for $2.6 billion. Imasco, which also owns Hardee's Food Systems, Imperial Tobacco and Peoples Drug Stores, has been selling Genstar's assets except for Canada Trustco Mortgage Corp., a financial-services business.